SMART DCC LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-12-31 (in 7mo)
Last filed for 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-07-14 (in 2mo)
Last made up 2025-06-30
Watchouts
Cash
£83M
+19.2% vs 2024
Net assets
£362M
-0.9% vs 2024
Employees
759
+4% vs 2024
Profit before tax
£861K
-68.7% vs 2024
Watchouts
Facts from the Companies House register and the latest accounts — not a rating
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Outstanding charges registered
One or more mortgages or charges remain undischarged on the Companies House register.
Profit before tax
2-year trend · vs Consumer Discretionary median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-03-31
| Metric | Trend | 2024-03-31 | 2025-03-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £499,757,000 | £514,266,000 | |
| Operating profit | -£1,911,000 | -£518,000 | |
| Profit before tax | £2,752,000 | £861,000 | |
| Net profit | £0 | £0 | |
| Cash | £69,589,000 | £82,967,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £365,317,000 | £362,120,000 | |
| Net assets | — | — | |
| Equity | £1 | £1 | |
| Average employees | 730 | 759 | |
| Wages | £77,160,000 | £82,515,000 |
Values shown as filed in the company's annual accounts. — indicates the figure wasn't present under that line item in that period. About these numbers
Ratios
Computed from the line items above — sparklines read oldest → newest
| Ratio | Trend | 2024-03-31 | 2025-03-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | -0.4% | -0.1% | |
| Net margin | 0.0% | 0.0% | |
| Return on capital employed | -0.5% | -0.1% | |
| Current ratio | 0.99x | 1.00x | |
| Interest cover | -0.22x | -0.07x |
Margins divide P&L lines by turnover. Gearing is liabilities over total assets. Current ratio is current assets over creditors falling due within one year. Interest cover is operating profit over absolute finance costs. Sector-distribution context coming next.
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- IFRS
- Reporting scope
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- MHA Audit Services LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“Based on their assessment of prospects and viability above, the Directors confirm that they have a reasonable expectation that the Company will be able to continue in operation and meet its liabilities as they fall due over the three year period to March 2028.”
Significant events
- “On 22 July 2025, the DCC Board approved a new financing arrangement to fund the Design Build Test phase of the new DSP programme. This secures a drawdown facility of £110M which can be utilised over the next 3 years.”
- “On 23 July 2025, Ofgem announced that it had opened an investigation into DCC’s compliance with certain conditions of its Smart Meter Communication Licence.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
10 active · 16 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CAPITA GROUP SECRETARY LIMITED | Corporate Secretary | 2013-08-07 | — | — |
| ANDERSON, Barbara Lawson | Director | 2019-08-01 | Feb 1968 | British |
| BATE-WILLIAMS, Gemma Rebecca | Director | 2024-02-01 | Jul 1980 | British |
| CHOUDHARY, Nadia | Director | 2024-02-01 | Aug 1987 | British |
| ECCLESTON, Sarah | Director | 2022-09-11 | Sep 1970 | British |
| GUY, Dame Gillian | Director | 2025-10-01 | Feb 1955 | British |
| LOVATT, Christopher | Director | 2025-03-25 | Jun 1969 | British |
| MCCAIG, Ian | Director | 2021-04-01 | Apr 1966 | British |
| MCCARTHY, Richard John | Director | 2013-10-01 | Apr 1958 | British |
| ROBERTSON, Gavin | Director | 2025-03-25 | Jan 1966 | British |
Show 16 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| BROWN, David Nicholas | Director | 2016-09-28 | 2020-07-01 |
| CLARK, Jason Lee | Director | 2021-02-01 | 2023-12-31 |
| CRAWFORD, David William | Director | 2013-08-07 | 2013-10-01 |
| ELLIOTT, Patrick William | Director | 2019-12-01 | 2022-12-31 |
| FLETT, Angus Robert | Director | 2017-02-28 | 2024-08-30 |
| HEMMING, John James | Director | 2017-01-31 | 2019-05-01 |
| HOLROYD, Richard Charles | Director | 2022-10-25 | 2024-02-01 |
| HURST, Gordon Mark | Director | 2013-08-14 | 2015-02-28 |
| MALE, Philip Stewart | Director | 2013-09-11 | 2022-09-10 |
| MATHIESON, Mark William | Director | 2018-03-22 | 2021-04-01 |
| RICKETT, William Francis Sebastian | Director | 2013-09-11 | 2019-08-01 |
| SHARP, Stephen | Director | 2015-01-28 | 2017-01-31 |
| SIMCOCK, Jonathan Peter | Director | 2013-09-11 | 2017-02-28 |
| SMITH, Neil Colin | Director | 2024-06-10 | 2025-03-25 |
| TABORIN, Serge Srdan | Director | 2019-05-01 | 2019-12-01 |
| CAPITA CORPORATE DIRECTOR LIMITED | Corporate Director | 2013-08-07 | 2015-05-27 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Capita Business Services Ltd | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 85 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-06 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2025-10-27 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2025-10-06 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-08-26 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-07-02 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-03-28 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-03-27 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-03-27 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-11-22 | CH04 | officers | Change corporate secretary company with change date | |
| 2024-11-19 | PSC05 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2024-11-18 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2024-10-29 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-09-02 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-07-04 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-06-25 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-02-09 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-02-08 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-02-08 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-01-11 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-09-20 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 5
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 1
- Officers resigned
- 0
last 12 months
last 24 months
last 12 months
last 12 months
Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.
Year-on-year
FY2024 → FY2025 · period ending 2025-03-31 vs 2024-03-31
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Turnover
+2.9%
£499,757,000 £514,266,000
-
Cash
+19.2%
£69,589,000 £82,967,000
-
Net assets
—
Not reported
-
Employees
+4%
730 759
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Operating profit
+72.9%
-£1,911,000 -£518,000
-
Profit before tax
-68.7%
£2,752,000 £861,000
-
Wages
+6.9%
£77,160,000 £82,515,000
Each % is (latest − prior) ÷ |prior| for the line item as filed. The comparison is only shown when the latest and prior accounts cover broadly equal-length periods — short or long stubs (typical around incorporation or a year-end change) are suppressed rather than misrepresented. Lines a company doesn't report are omitted. About these numbers